Commentary: Vermont Blames the Victims
I attended the Public Service Board’s noise workshop in Morrisville a few weeks ago. The Board is trying to determine if the noise standards for energy projects are adequate. The purpose of the...
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Commentary: Vermont’s Rumsfeld Strategy
In his 2004 book “Against All Enemies,” President George W. Bush’s counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke described a meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that took place shortly after...
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Commentary: The Wrong Prescription for Net Metering
The Washington Electric Cooperative recently requested permission to impose fees on its net metering members in order to assure that the net metering program would be fair to all Co-op members....
View ArticleCommentary: Eolian–A History of Failure
Eolian Renewable Energy of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, recently announced that it was abandoning its Seneca Mountain Wind project in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. Seneca joins unsuccessful Eolian wind...
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Analysis: Twenty Years of Lowell
Green Mountain Power claims that its complex of industrial wind turbines on Lowell Mountain prevents the emission of greenhouse gases. GMP claims that each megawatt of power that the turbines put on...
View ArticleCommentary: A Moral Response to Climate Change
Most Vermonters accept the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and that human activity is major contributor. Many Vermonters believe that climate change is a moral issue. Some...
View ArticlePress Release: Energize Vermont Commends Call to Investigate Green Mountain...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 15, 2014 Contact: Mark Whitworth 802.424.0540 Email: Mark@energizevermont.org Energize Vermont Commends Call to Investigate Green Mountain Power’s Deceptive...
View ArticleSad Truth: Fighting for Change Takes Money
Will you support us this year? This year in Vermont brought the threat of more big wind projects, a disruptive pipeline, acres of poorly sited solar, and a deeply broken PSB process. When will we gain...
View ArticleUpdate from the State House #2015-1: H. 40/S. 51 to RESET Renewable Targets
Bill calls for renewable portfolio standard, but fails to address Vermont’s destructive energy siting practices. A bill has been introduced in both the Vermont House (H.40) and Senate (the identical...
View ArticleUpdate from the State House #2015-2: RESET Costs Unknown, Siting Problems...
H.40 Will Repeal SPEED and Enact RESET In our previous update, we described the questions of legitimacy that surround Vermont’s SPEED program. These questions resulted in the creation of H.40, a House...
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Pete Antos-Ketcham Joins Energize Vermont as Executive Director
Antos-Ketcham Brings 22 Years of Natural Resource Management to the Statewide Non-profit Huntington, VT – Energize Vermont is pleased to announce that Pete Antos-Ketcham, formerly of the Green Mountain...
View ArticleShove It Down Their Throats
Vermont has adopted some ambitious energy goals. The state could have engaged its communities in achieving these goals, but it did not. Instead, it has turned things over to energy developers, many of...
View ArticleDegrading Our Defenses Against Climate Change
In the past few weeks, two of the architects of Governor Shumlin’s energy policies acknowledged that the policies will have no impact on climate change. They disclosed, in separate interviews, that the...
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